Howard Tolley, Jr.
Professor of Political Science
University of Cincinnati

Howard Tolley, Jr. is professor of political science and adjunct professor of law at the University of Cincinnati. After earning a Ph.D. at Columbia, he published Children and War while a faculty member at Wilberforce University. After earning a JD at the University of Cincinnati as a fellow in the Morgan Institute for Human Rights, he was a senior law clerk to Judge George Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. His major publications include the U.N. Commission on Human Rights (Westview, 1987) and the International Commission of Jurists (U. of Pa. Press, 1994). His Teaching Human Rights on-line Project http://oz.uc.edu/thro was recognized as the best political science website for 2001 by the APSA.

He served as President of the Ohio Conference AAUP and of the Cincinnati ACLU chapter and as a board member of the Cincinnati Legal Aid Society and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Recent honors include a civil liberties award from the Southwest Ohio ACLU, appointment to the roster of neutrals by the State Employment Relations Board, and USIA sponsored lectures in Turkey on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He is an ACLU cooperating attorney, a member of the Amnesty International Legal Support Network, a board member of Ohioans to Stop Executions, and previously served on the Cincinnati Bar Association's Judicial Candidate Rating Committee.

A former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria, Professor Tolley was a 1991 lecturer on Semester at Sea and Core Director on the Fall 2000 Voyage. He has been named by the Fullbright Commission as the Thomas Jefferson Chair on American Social Studies for the Netherlands in the 2003-2004 academic year.